Their Anthropic Institute will spend the coming months examining possibilities for overcoming the obstacles to such a global pause. One lab stopping doesn't really do much except let the other labs pass them -- a classic collective action problem, made more severe by speed and impact.
Anthropic's blog post outlining the exponential improvements in their AI model is worth reading. They conclude that it would be good if we could figure out a way to implement a global pause in frontier AI development to give societies a chance to prepare. Extraordinarily hard to verify, though.
NEW: Our visual analysis suggests the U.S. hit two drinking-water facilities overnight in southern Iran with precision-guided munitions. Deliberately targeting civilian infrastructure could constitute a war crime. w/ @ckoettl.bsky.social @johnismay.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/06/10/w...
The dedicated men and women of the IC have got to be just seething over this guy with zero knowledge of their business being put in charge—and the President telling him to spend his time looking for nonexistent evidence of rigged US elections.
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Day 12 Tirana Albania: the streets as packed with protesters, it’s a multi-generational event that transcends all the Albanian society as a whole.
Hands off Albania! 🇦🇱
Yearly Murmuration of Starlings in Rome are incredibly adaptable songbirds known for their mesmerizing, synchronized aerial acrobatics, exceptional vocal mimicry, and shifting, shimmering plumage
Man, the Trump team really hates the U.S. Constitution and its pesky 1st Amendment.
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One repulsive part of the U.S. debate about the Iran war is how little is said about the suffering the war is causing the Iranian people -- on top of all their suffering from a terrible government, decades of sanctions, etc.
I generally don't like cross-posting from Twitter, but
Mike Young absolutely nails how the US wound up with a resurgence of the flesh-eating screwworm decades after it had been eliminated.
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The tanks supplied water to around 20,000 residents in the city of Kuhestak + 10 surrounding villages in the Bemani district of Iran.
Temperatures in the region are currently between 45 and 50°C.
The situation for people there is unthinkable.
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This is an outrage and a clear abuse of power and a violation of both the Constitution and the oaths of office. And scary as hell for anyone who believes in freedom.
Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret)
Washington says its jets targeted air defence and radar sites after Iranian forces downed American helicopter
